BOTANICAL APPENDIX 



BY 



PROFESSOR HOOKER. 



The following list of plants is drawn up from the collection 

 of Captain Lyon. That it is not more numerous will excite 

 no astonishment, when it is considered how scanty Avere the 

 opportunities of going on shore afforded to the Expedition; 

 and that it includes but very few species which had not 

 rewarded the researches of the former Arctic voyagers, 

 will also be no matter of surprise, when it is known that 

 *' the plants were all gathered upon a few low islands which 

 were met with in, or near, the position assigned to South- 

 ampton Island ;" consequently, in a country, the direct vici- 

 nity of Avhich had been so successfully explored by the Ex- 

 pedition immediately previous. 



The leaves of the oak which Captain Lyon found upon an 

 iceberg near the centre of Hudson's Strait, must undoubt- 

 edly be considered as a very great curiosity, as well as the 

 single leaf of the common WJioiile-herry (^Vacciniiim Myr- 

 tillus ;) since they may be expected to throw some light 

 upon the origin of these vast masses of ice. Tlie fonner 

 appear unquestionably to have belonged to one of the two 

 species of the common European oak, either Quercus Robiir 

 or Q, sessilifiora ; the latter to a plant very frequent in the 



